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Programming a saber II...

Everything I programmed in works great but for some reason 3 channels wont work. It wont recieve or transmit on these 3 channels. On transmit it gives a quick beep then a continuous long beep. Two of the freqs are in 151 and the other is in 168.

If you say I programmed it out of the limits thats not it because I have freqs down to 146 and up to 154 that work fine. So why wont one in the middle recieve or transmit? I'm at a complete loss for ideas. What am I overlooking?!?!? Please help before I tear more hair out

I'm kinda stumped too...the only thing I can think of if you are sure there is nothing wrong with the radios is maybe those are the self quiting frequencies that motorola lists that the radio will not operate on...Every radio that I have seen in my price pages has a small list of frequencies that it will not TX/RX on and you usually hear just static on them if you program them....its a far fetched guess though, who knows...maybe you just picked unlucky frequencies...only other thing I can think of is it has been hacked somewhere down the line

Interesting, however I don't think i'm that unlucky Messed codeplug... doubt it because I can make a new zone and a new personality on a different channel number, place the same channel info in it and it does the same thing.

I've seen this before. It was a 151 mhz freq and a 158. This problem was due to an old version of RSS and the wrong computer (too fast i guess). The program loaded and read ok and it seemed to work but certain freqs. were dead.

What version are you using and what kind of computer?

I'm using the newest Saber RSS and an old 486-25 that has always worked for everything else.

Try relocating those channels to different positions on the channel selector knob by reordering the channels.

I'm wondering if you might have a defective channel selector. This will help figure that out.

Elroy

Elroy, not the case. If I move the freq to a different channel it works fine. After hours of tinkering here's an update:

I created a new personality and made the radio a narrow band instead of wide band. So now I entered those frequencys again. Radio took the two 151 freqs fine within the RSS (it would take up to 151.8 in RSS as valid freqs). Guess what! They work now! But RSS will no longer accept the 160-170 frequencies because they are "out of band". So I hex edited in the 160-170 frequencies. And they don't work. Same deal as before.... no recieve at all and no transmit. Just a quick beep then a solid long beep. This radio transmitted on these frequencies before just fine when the model was set to a wide band. My counter proves it.

I _KNOW_ the radio can transmit and recieve on these frequencies. Something is stopping it. That something changes depending on what model the radio is set to as it should.... but then hex editing the radio should work....but it doesn't.

*SCREAM*